Impromptu Family Meetups

[smartass_captain]

It's that time of year. Holidays around every corner, family and friends dropping in unannounced, needing to be entertained and fed and plied with stories of how you've been, how is work, and all sorts of things. The thing is, for most of Jim Kirk's life he's never known any of that. It's hard to have sudden family visits when you don't have much in the way of family and aren't speaking to damn near all of them.

Which makes this day exceptionally stressful.

No Starfleet uniform today--even if Jim wanted to he's not allowed to wear any of his own clothes for where he's about to be headed. Instead he's dressed in a soft wool tunic in his preferred golden color and simple linen pants beneath the fur lined cloak he's got pulled over his clothes. Gloved hands fidget with the ties on all of this, a nervous habit he can't quite stop himself from making.

He stops his pacing when he nearly stumbles over a passer-by with how lost in thought he is and it's only then that the captain looks up at whomever he's nearly trodden upon.

"What's the best way to impress your in-laws? What's the etiquette for meeting someone's family for the first time?"

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[smartass_captain]

"Probably not? But I mean, if I was working on something top secret for Starfleet and some guy showed up from who-knows-where with one of my crew sniffing around asking questions...a guy would get suspicious."

And Starfleet isn't even a military. It's just the nature of that kind of work. Classified intel is always something you've got to be careful of.

"I'm just...so worried about screwing this up. I'm not...we're not--" Referring to his other self. "The sort of guy folks ever brought home to their folks before."

[losthunter]

Hunter arches an eyebrow at that last statement. He met his Jim's grandparents and mother last year, for L'shanah tovah. And it sounds like a different situation for this Jim.

And so he asks cautiously, "Has Felix met your family?"

[smartass_captain]

"What family?"

And he says it so cavalierly too. The circumstances aren't the same for this Jim Kirk as they are for Hunters. That much is certain.

"Oh, wait. You mean the crew? Yeah. He's met the whole Alpha team by now. Bones is probably the closest to him but then again he's spent time in the Nexus before. I think he and Scotty will get along great to be honest. And then there's my beta shift comms officer who Felix is bound and determined to buddy up with as much as he can."

[losthunter]

Definitely different circumstances. Hunter focuses on talking about the crew.

"I got to know a lot of the senior crew under unusual circumstances... but I am glad that Felix has met them."